Early Life
Paciano Rizal was born to Francisco Engracio Rizal Mercado de Alejandro (1818–1897) and Teodora Morales Alonso Realonda y Quintos (1827–1911), as the second of eleven children born to a wealthy family in the town of Calamba City, Laguna, and grew up witnessing the abuses of the clergy and the Spanish colonial government. His teacher and close friend, Fray José Burgos was implicated in the Cavite Mutiny of 1872 and summarily executed.
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